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Chicken and avocado enchilada recipes have been making their way around the food logging sphere lately like these spicy avocado chicken enchiladas on the novice chef , these chicken and avocado enchiladas on gimme some oven and these avocado cream and chicken suiza enchiladas on foodie crush and given my obsession with both Mexican cuisine and avocados it was only a matter of time until I made some of my own! For my recipe I wanted to get as much avocado into the dish as possible so I stuffed the enchiladas with big chunks of avocado in addition to using avocados in the creamy enchilada sauce. Another goal that I had with the recipe was for it to be really quick and easy to put together and if you have the salsa verde and cooked and shredded chicken on hand already then you can whip these super tasty enchiladas up in about 30 minutes!

I wanted the sauce to be as easy to make as throwing everything into a food processor and pureeing it. I went with a liquid base of chicken broth, salsa verde and sour cream in addition to the avocados to which I added some more heat with a jalapeno pepper and then I seasoned the sauce with garlic, cumin, cilantro and finally a splash of lime juice. You will notice both the salsa verde and the jalapeno pepper as sources of heat in this creamy avocado sauce so make sure that you get the level of heat to where you want it. If you do not like heat, go with a mild salsa verde and either skip the jalapeno or use a seeded jalapeno and if you like heat, go with a hot salsa verde and throw the whole jalapeno, seeds and all in.

The filling for the enchilada nice and easy consisting of chicken, avocado, green onion and plenty of cheese and then some of the creamy enchilada sauce is thrown into the mix. Once the sauce and fillings have been prepared all that remains is to assemble the enchiladas and bake them until cooked!

I knew that these chicken and avocado enchiladas in a creamy avocado sauce were going to be good but I was totally blown away by just how good they were! I am so addicted! I polished off two servings on the first night and I am already trying to figure out how soon I can get them into my meal plan again!

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Anonymous: This time, yes. I generally prefer corn tortillas but they can sometimes be difficult to get here. The one store that carries them was out a three different locations so I resigned to using flour.

This looks fabulous! I really heart avocados! I was wondering if you had any thoughts on how this would freeze? Worse case scenario is leftovers with eggs in the am. Oh, and by the way...just "found" you the other day, and I think you make up half of my Pinterest pins! ;)

Kevin, my husband would be in heaven if I would serve your dish for dinner tonight. He only eats corn tortillas and luckily they are easy to find in any store here in Colorado since he east stacks of them weekly (not kidding).Unfortunately my husband is out of luck tonight. Our teens wished for breakfast dinner (chorizo, tomatillo and chipotle salsa, eggs and waffles). Fine with me.

This looks fabulous! I really heart avocados! I was wondering if you had any thoughts on how this would freeze? Worse case scenario would be leftovers with eggs in the am. Oh, and by the way....just "found" you the other day, and I think you make up half of my Pinterest pins! ;)

This looks fabulous! I really heart avocados! I was wondering if you had any thoughts on how this would freeze? Worse case scenario is leftovers with eggs in the am. Oh, and by the way...just "found" you the other day, and I think you make up half of my Pinterest pins! ;)

Made this tonight and we LOVED them! My husband, who doesn't dole out compliments freely, said they were restaurant-grade! Next time I am going to try with shrimp. I also used fresh flour tortillas and blended up sauce this morning to make dinnertime easier. Worked great!

Just made these for dinner tonight, and am snacking on the leftover sauce and tortilla chips while I wait for it to cook. This sauce is so addicting, I want to eat it on everything! I'm loving the idea for using as a salad dressing....

Anonymous The parts of the tortillas covered in the sauce will be wet and these are definitely a knife and fork kind of a dish. Yes, that is 4 avocados; 2 go into the sauce and 2 are diced and used in the filling.

Made this tonight and hubby & I loved it! I did 1/2 tsp. less cumin and should've only used 1/2 of the jalapeño because it was too spicy for my daughters, even with removing all of the seeds! We got a hot one :) Thanks !

Kevin, these enchiladas were awesome! I actually ended substituting beans instead of chicken and they still turned out delicious. I shared this recipe in my most recent meal plan on my blog, thank you!

Kevin, I just found your site. Saw this recipe and had to try it. I got to try one but my teenage boy and his friend ate the rest and poor hubby got none. So next day made them again. Hubby and my best friend thought they were the best ever. First batch I used corn, second batch flour. Both turned out great! I think the flour was more filling.

I absolutely LOVED this recipe!!! So did my borderline vegetarian husband and picky eater daughter!!! I've pinned it, instagramed it, and shard your recipe on facebook! It is DIVINE!I even added spinach to mine and multigrain tortillas and it still tatse AMAZING!

I made this recipe last night and it is absolutely delicious, my picky eater (daughter) was even asking if there would be any leftovers. The only change I made was instead of rolling the tortillas I made it into a casserole, since I was pressing for time. Thank you so much for the recipe. I had some of the sauce leftover and I will be eating it with tortilla chips, just like in the seafood mexican restaurant I go to. :)

Kevin- I LOVE your blog! So many tasty recipes and good ideas. I made these enchiladas tonight and my family loved them! I really like how you pureed the avocados in the sauce. Also- I made your peppermint white chocolate chip cookies for my friends and they were a HUGE hit! Thanks for the inspiration!

Hi Kevin! I have pinned a lot of your recipes, but I have a question about this recipe. You say it serves 4 and there are 4 enchiladas in the picture, but you say in the ingredient list that we need 8 tortillas. Does this serve 8? Is there enough filling for 8 enchiladas or do I need to double the recipe? I want this to make 6-8 enchiladas. Thank you!

Anonymous: This makes 8 enchiladas and I assume 2 per person for 4 servings and they are rather large servings (roughly 1 cup of chicken and half of an avocado per person in the filling). You could easily make 6 larger enchiladas and make it 6 servings with a side like a salad or you could bump up the amount of chicken and avocado in the filling to make it 1 large enchilada per person. Enjoy!

I made these but accidentally forgot to put the cubed avocado in, and ended up only putting half the cheese on top. I don't think they need any more avocado or cheese than that! I don't even wanna know how much fat are in these, but they are delicious. At least leaving out the extra 2 avocados and cheese helped some

I made this recently, but modified it a bit - I only had one avocado on hand and no chicken. So I substituted the chicken with a 15 oz can of black beans, and a 15 oz can of refried black beans. I put 3/4 of the avocado in the sauce and the rest with the filling for the enchiladas. I also added an orange bell pepper chopped up to the filling since I had it on hand. It turned out great! When I told my fiance I wanted to try it with chicken next time, he replied that there was no need, he loved it, and he usually doesn't love dishes without meat. And I was full after eating only one enchilada. Love the sauce even with barely half of what it called for with the avocado, it would make a fantastic dressing for salad. Thanks for the recipe!

Omgosh!!! These were delicious! Definitely a new fav. We have two avocado trees and so many avocados to use this time of year. This a perfect way to get good use out of them. Thanks for the recipe we absolutely loved it!

I've seen this recipe on your site for awhile but for some reason, I thought it was too much trouble until now. It was quite delicious. My hubby loved it and now I won't be able to go back to plain cheese enchiladas ever again! Thank you!

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